pchristians
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Hi,
I installed system 9.1 on a 7500. The drive was completely reformatted using os 9 disk utility, so it was completely empty.
I started up using the CD and installed the system with no problems what so ever. Theoretically, this fresh installation only takes up about 300 mb of the 1gb of disk space available.
The recently installed system starts up fine, but when you go to get info, it states that the disk space used is 800 MB and only 200MB is available. I opened virtual the memory coontrol panel thinking that that was the problem, but it was set up to only 1 MB more, and it stated that I can use 800 mb even though get info says there is only 200MB available.
So I turned VM off, and when I restarted, the get info displayed the right information. The system files took up about 300MB and had 700 MB free space.
I was going to keep VM off, but then I started experiencing extremely slow network speeds (i.e 16bytes-sec), so I turned on VM again and the network problems went away.
Thinking I had a corrupted system, I wiped the drive yet again, and installed from another copy of 9.0. I get the same problem. I even found my old copy of 7.6, installed it, and still get that problem.
I really don’t understand what is going on, maybe a component has been damaged? I’ve installed the system many times before without problem. I don’t believe it’s the hard drive, because when I install the system on another drive I still get that problem. When I startup from the CD and use get info on the drive it displays the information correctly.
Additionally, I kept a copy of the old system software on a CD. To see if the old system had the same problem, I copied it back to the same drive after formatting it again and it doesn’t have the problem.
To sum up, I only get the problem when trying to install a new system, any version, (7.6, 9.0 or 9.1)., even if I wipe the drive, zap the PRAM, or Reset the CUDA switch.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I installed system 9.1 on a 7500. The drive was completely reformatted using os 9 disk utility, so it was completely empty.
I started up using the CD and installed the system with no problems what so ever. Theoretically, this fresh installation only takes up about 300 mb of the 1gb of disk space available.
The recently installed system starts up fine, but when you go to get info, it states that the disk space used is 800 MB and only 200MB is available. I opened virtual the memory coontrol panel thinking that that was the problem, but it was set up to only 1 MB more, and it stated that I can use 800 mb even though get info says there is only 200MB available.
So I turned VM off, and when I restarted, the get info displayed the right information. The system files took up about 300MB and had 700 MB free space.
I was going to keep VM off, but then I started experiencing extremely slow network speeds (i.e 16bytes-sec), so I turned on VM again and the network problems went away.
Thinking I had a corrupted system, I wiped the drive yet again, and installed from another copy of 9.0. I get the same problem. I even found my old copy of 7.6, installed it, and still get that problem.
I really don’t understand what is going on, maybe a component has been damaged? I’ve installed the system many times before without problem. I don’t believe it’s the hard drive, because when I install the system on another drive I still get that problem. When I startup from the CD and use get info on the drive it displays the information correctly.
Additionally, I kept a copy of the old system software on a CD. To see if the old system had the same problem, I copied it back to the same drive after formatting it again and it doesn’t have the problem.
To sum up, I only get the problem when trying to install a new system, any version, (7.6, 9.0 or 9.1)., even if I wipe the drive, zap the PRAM, or Reset the CUDA switch.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
